Upcoming Event

West Grand is sponsoring a dinner and presentation on February 8 for parents of 4th and 5th grade students. Dinner is at 5:30 in the Community Room, and the presentation begins at 6:30. The presentation gives parents information on raising adolescent children and offers support as interactions between you and your child begin to change. Please contact our school counselor, Jantrey Miller, for more information.

Online Library

A fantastic new website has come across my computer screen. We Give Books provides an online library for students and also donates one book to different literacy foundations for every book that is read online. Click here for more information. I have created a class account so students can help give books to kids who need them. Our username is Ainslie4, and our password is buckaroo. Students may browse all books or check out some of the nonfiction books I've added to our library. Please continue to add your favorite books to our library so others can find them as well.

Happy reading!

Study Hall & Report Cards

Our Study Hall has been moved to Monday afternoons from 4:00-4:45. Fifth grade Study Hall has also been rescheduled for Monday afternoon so that siblings are staying after school on the same nights.

Report cards have been printed off and are ready to go home. I would like to wait to send them home until next week. Students are taking MAPs tests next week, and I would like to attach their updated scores to their report card. If you would like me to send a copy of your child's report card home this before next Thursday, please let me know, and I'll take care of it.

Technical Difficults, Study Hall, & Mrs. Nanda

Technology is wonderful...when it works. My computer was having a bad day, and I was not able to print off spelling and vocabulary homework while the kids were in school. However, both are now printed. We will be one day behind on vocabulary this week, and I told the students to choose their own way to practice their spelling tonight.

We will not have Study Hall tomorrow after school. I have a staff meeting. We typically have staff meetings on Wednesdays, but Mrs. Martin will be gone on Wednesdays helping to care for her sister, Mrs. Nanda, while she continues to recover. As soon as we have our staff meetings rescheduled, I will send out an announcement about Study Hall.

The kids did get an update about Mrs. Nanda from Mrs. Martin today. Kimberlee is continuing to make growth with her speech and physical therapies. She was able to leave the hospital for a couple hours on Christmas to open presents with her family. Music classes will be taught by Kathy Yost this semester.

January Newsletter & Homework Calendar

Kaps for Kimberlee

Remember that Tuesday, December 13 is Kaps for Kimberlee day. We are having a fundraiser to support Mrs. Kimberlee Nanda as she continues to recover from her brain surgery this fall. Students may wear a hat at school for a donation of $1.

Happy December!

Below is a copy of the newsletter that was sent home today and December's homework calendar.

I do have updated information about the last day before break. Thursday morning between 9:00 and 10:00, our class will be baking some yummy Greek holiday cookies. (These are the recipes I'm looking at: Greek Butter Cookies, Kourambiathes) At 10:00 we will be meeting with Mrs. Crosby's 5th grade class to share some poetry. The elementary school will be traveling to the high school at 1:15 to watch a movie. We will have our winter party at the end of the day (around 3:00 if all goes according to plan). If you would like to help with our baking adventure or our class party, please let me know. We would love to have you.

As I have been doing research for our door decorating, I've come across some fantastic sites about Greece, both ancient and present day. These links have been added to the reading and writing page on this site. Enjoy!

More Exciting Sites to Explore

Science Links
Flabby Physics: Use science to win this game
Denver Zoo: Check out the animals in our own zoo
San Diego Zoo: Learn about all kinds of zoo animals
Math Links
Math Duck: This site has practice games for a variety of math topics
Language Links
Magnetic Poetry: Rearrange "magnets" to create your own sentences and poetry
Art Links
Origami Club: What creations can you make?

Updated HW Calendar

Here is an updated copy of our homework calendar. Sorry for the delay.

4th Grade Study Tools

The activities on EZ School not only reinforce concepts we cover in class, but they will also help students prepare for CSAP.

http://www.ezschool.com/Grade4Tools.html